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The European Space Agency plans to launch this Saturday, July 1, the Euclid telescope, a scientific mission that aims to create the largest and most accurate 3D map ever made of our universe and shed light on the so-called "dark components" of the cosmos. The project will take off at around 5:11 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time) from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida (USA). The mission of this new telescope will be observe billions of galaxies until distances of ten billion light yearsprecisely measuring the position and shapes of galaxies in visible light and inferring their distances, as indicated by…

Despite the fact that nights are shorter because there are more daylight hours and contrary to logic, summer is a perfect season to see astronomical phenomena. Few, yes, precisely for this reason: because there is more light and more daylight hours, they are more difficult to produce. But the few that there are can be seen clearly because summer, which officially began on June 21 at 4:58 p.m., is usually accompanied by clear skies. Thus, after the change of season and the summer solstice -the longest day of the year- comes the first full moon, which is also the first…

Scientists have known for decades that genes can be transferred from one species to another, both in animals and plants, but the process was unknown. Now, they have identified a vector for horizontal gene transfer (THG) in worms. The discoveries, published in the journal Science, could lead to the discovery of other TGH vectors in eukaryotes and find applications in pathogen control. The transference of genetic information between species, called horizontal gene transfer, is a phenomenon observed in eukaryotes, including some vertebrate species. Researchers from the laboratory of Alejandro Burga, from the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian…